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A study of the archaeology and prehistory of Manchuria, focusing on its unique contribution to the development of Chinese’ culture.
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Sarah Milledge Nelson
Sarah Milledge Nelson explores a bold thesis that the development of states in East Asia-China, Japan, Korea-was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans.
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Gyeongju was the capital of the Kingdom of Silla in Korea from the fourth century to the tenth century, growing from a loose confederation of villages to become the capital…
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sarah Nelson’s teaching novel follows Clara, a Korean-American archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland, addressing issues of gender, shamanism, ethnic identity, and Neolithic culture for college students.
Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in the studying gender in the ancient world and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done…
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Follows Clara, a Korean-American archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland. This title recounts her experiences as a field archaeologist and as a young woman caught between two cultures…
Reflects the various changes in the study of gender and archaeology. This title covers issues such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy. It also covers the roles…
Sarah Milledge Nelson (University of Denver)
The author examines the evolution of state-level societies and their relationship to polities in Japan and China, and the emergence of a Korean ethnic identity. Emphasising the particular features of…
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Sarah Milleage Nelson
An archaeological suspense story set in northeast China designed to introduce Neolithic life, ancient ritual, and looting to archaeology students.
Clara begins work at an excavation at the Temple, only to discover the problems of contemporary looting, government meddling, and excavation interpersonal dynamics.
In Pursuit of Gender advances the study of gender in archaeology with detailed data, a world-wide scope and carefully reasoned conclusions that move into new territory, paving the way towards…
Part IV of Nelson’s ‘Handbook of Gender in Archaeology’ (2006). Examines the archaeology of women’s lives and activities around the globe.
This is the first book to consider issues of gender and social identity across a broad temporal and geographical range of civilizations in the ancient Near East.
Shedding new light on the division of power, the essays in this volume explore the variety of roles and assumptions about queens from the Americas to Eurasia. Together they provide…
First reference work to explore the research on gender in archaeology.
This collection of original essays presents an in-depth look at the archaeology of the Eurasian steppe-from China to Europe-and the evidence of gender roles in ancient nomadic societies.
InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human…
Part One of Nelson’s ‘Handbook of Gender in Archaeology.
